Sunday, June 26, 2005
Iraqi, In for the Long Haul?
While yet more bombiings took place in Iraqi, Bush & Co. have decided to back away from the "victory is just around the coner" line. Now they're embracing the "it'll be a long time" before we leave, hoping that "leveling with the American public will help their pool numbers. USATODAY.com reports
While yet more bombiings took place in Iraqi, Bush & Co. have decided to back away from the "victory is just around the coner" line. Now they're embracing the "it'll be a long time" before we leave, hoping that "leveling with the American public will help their pool numbers. USATODAY.com reports
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday he is bracing for even more violence in Iraq and acknowledged that the insurgency "could go on for any number of years.". 12 years. Yep that's right twelve years. Remember last week Sec. of State Rice said we'd be there for a generation. Now this is interesting since Bush & Co. told us during that accountability moment back in November that we were making good progress and that the Iraqis would be able to finish the job once they had an elected government. Now it appears that we'll be doing most of the job for the foreseeable future. Remember how the story was that we'd see an increase in attacks before the "handover" of power, then it was how we'd see an increase in attacks leading up to the first elections? Now Rummy and friends are saying this:
Defeating the insurgency may take as long as 12 years"
"I would anticipate you're going to see an escalation of violence between now and the December elections."Sounds like just another excuse for why our policy (if we can call it that) has failed in Iraq. Rummy on Sunday as much as admitted that we've failed, "Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency." True he went on to say something about us establishing an environment in which the Iraqis themselves can "crush" the insurgency, but that's nothing more than a slick way of passing the buck. According to this logic, if the insurgency continues it's not our fault but the fault of the Iraqis to fight back, a failure on the Iraqis' part to use the training and funds we've given them.
The Bush shell game continues. And remember, "a great many of the bad things that could have happened did not happen." I'm not sure what many of those things are but according to Rumsfeld those bad things include oil wells on fire. I sure am glad we had enough troops to make sure the oil wells stayed safe. Too bad the road from Baghdad airport didn't get the same attention.